Operation Mincemeat BBC 2

They forgot to mention the father of forensic science, Sir Bernard Spilsbury who after
viewing many possible cadavers for this mission to be able to deceive the Germans he picked the right body.

Apart from that, the programme was a treat and curiously enough, it demonstrates how
the human mind concentrates in details rather than the overall picture about what was really happening when it comes to deceit. The Germans knew how crucially important it was to control Sicily if they wanted to avoid an allied invasion yet at the last minute and after viewing some purported papers contained in a corpse that appeared from nowhere, as the speculation was that the body may have come out of an airplane crash (but no airplane wreckage nor other corpses were seen nearby) others said it came from a sunken ship but again, there were no signs of a ship being sank there either, nor other bodies to make this tale more believable. I mean.. this is only ONE body that comes from nowhere which has purported 'classified' 'Secret' information which is, by all reasoning too good to be true. ie (plans for an invasion) According to the papers found in the corpse, the allies were going to invade from Greece (a highly improbable proposition to do) as this meant the allies would have had to bypass Sicily first in the narrow stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, where they would have been spotted right away by the Germans from Sicily on their way to Greece and cornered right there. Common sense tells you, there is no way the allies could have made it much further into Greece before being ravaged in Sicily first, yet the Germans moved their troops from their safe strategic position in Sicily to Greece only because they believed the papers that came from a corpse that came from nowhere. Common sense and reasoning should have told them: In whose interest was it to move German troops from Sicily? It wasn't in Germany's interest since this would be leaving the door wide open for an allied invasion from Sicily, which is exactly what happened.